AN AUSTRALIAN ENTERPRISE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9373, 16 February 1909, Page 4

AN AUSTRALIAN ENTERPRISE.

ANDERSON’S DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Mr William Anderson, whose name is synonymous with enterprise in the theatrical world, is to the fore again this time with a big Australian dramatic production, “The Squatter’s Daughter. ” This play, which will appear iu Martou on Thursday, for positively one night only, is one of the most typically Australian productions yet staged. It is written by two Australians, and is cram full of most exciting and romantic adventures. Nor can it be said that they are overdone. The love story of Violet Enderby and Tom Bathurst is workedjout in the gorgeous country so rich in Australian scenery that surrounds the Blue Mountains, and the authors with a keen eye to the effective, have set some of the most sensational of their hero and heroine’s adventures in the rocky fastnesses of the Jeuolan Oaves, the Eucalypti Gorge, Waterfall Gully and the chasms and valleys that make the Blue Mountains one of: the most romantic bits of Australian scenery. The story is worked out with much more cleverness than is. usual in such cases, and when after a series of attacks by Ben Hall and his bushrangers, and after foiling the villain until he, in a moment of temporary aberration, offers to become virtuous for a consideration of £SOO, and is promptly arrested, the hero and the heroine find the rough course of true-love smoothed out, and they are united. There are a host of side stories, pathettic, hnmorous, romantic, and matter of fact, hut all are typically Australian. The Scotch “Jackeroo” of the clan MaoPherson, proves himself a clever laugh maker, and yet a loyal friend ; the Aborigines, the cleverest lot that have yet been seen on the stage; the sheareis and rouseabonts, the station hands, the miraculous and sensational escapes from the outlaws all combine to make a really clever play, and one that is worth seeing. The prices are Bs, 2s and Is, and seats may be booked at Mogridge’a without extra charge.